I will always fondly remember my favorite job as a youth. This job definitely was not my 5am paper route or my long stint as a pump jockey at the Route 31 Amoco gas station in New Jersey. No, my favorite job was one I held over four consecutive summers, when a few...
Regrettably, I count myself as one of the many unfortunate people worldwide who endure long-term, chronic pain. Nearly a decade ago while at a gym and doing a simple butterfly exercise, I apparently twisted a centimeter in the wrong direction, ruptured a disc in my...
As the father of two young boys under five, I have had two distinctly different experiences in raising each child as they developed from infant to toddler. Our oldest child, bless his heart, has always been exceedingly amenable. He is a sweet kid with a warm heart....
Throughout my life, there have been quite a few tense moments when I anticipated a harsh response to what I deemed to be a negative situation or outcome. As a kid, that might have been a time when I came home with a teacher’s note deriding my behavior as a class...
Decades ago during my high school years, my somewhat myopic world tended to revolve around three subjects: school, sports and girls (most likely in reverse order). When it came to athletics, it was football in the fall, hoops in the winter and lacrosse in the spring....
Generally speaking, there are two topics of conversation which nearly guarantee that I am going to mentally disengage from a discussion. First, is any type of dialogue in which someone describes in detail a dream they had the night before. When that happens, I usually...
